First woman at the top in 118 years

West Coast dairy farmer Katie Milne is the first woman in Fed­er­ated Farm­ers’ 118-year his­tory to hold the na­tional pres­i­dency.

She de­scribed the el­e­va­tion as ‘‘pretty stun­ning, show­ing the Feds is a good pro­gres­sive or­gan­i­sa­tion that is will­ing to move with the times and take peo­ple with the right skills to go for­ward’’.